Healthy aging: A women's issue

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 220-232

  La Croix, Andrea Z ^a,b   Newton, Katherine M ^b   Leveille, Suzanne G ^c   Wallace, Jeffrey ^d  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALENDRONIC ACID; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CAFFEINE; CALCIUM; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; HOMOCYSTEINE; HORMONE; METHYLMALONIC ACID; RETINOL; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT; VITAMIN D;

AGED; AGING; BONE MINERAL; CANCER SCREENING; CATARACT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COUNSELING; DISABILITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXERCISE; FALLING; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEART DISEASE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; META ANALYSIS; MILK; MORBIDITY; NUTRITION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PNEUMONIA; PREVENTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STROKE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABLED PERSONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0030881745     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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